SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Pyrethrum. 951 
P. parthfJnium. Leaves stalked, compound, flat: leafits egg-shaped, 
cut: fruit-stalks branched: (flower-stalks corymbose: stem 
erect. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1231. E.)— Ludw. 192— Kniph. 5—Gars. 368— Blackw. 192— 
Woodv. 249— Fuchs. 4 5—J. B. ill. a. 129— Bod. 35. 2—Lob. Obs. 433. 1, 
and Ic. i. 751. 1—Ger. Em. 6.52. I—Park. 83. I—Pet. 19. 5—Matth. 907 
— H. Ox. vi. 10. 1—Ger. 526—FI. Dan. 674>—Lonic. i. 151. 2—Trag. 156. 
Stem three feet high, firm, scored, somewhat hairy. Leaves alternate, 
slightly hairy; leafits, two or three pair, oval, jagged, a large one ter¬ 
minal, wedge-shaped with lobes, the middle one of which is three-cleft, 
side ones scolloped. Flowers solitary. Fruit-stalks thickest just beneath 
the flower, hairy, mostly branched. Calyx, scales oval. Florets of the 
circumference wedge-shaped, white ; those of the centre yellow. Seeds 
egg-shaped, lopped at the base, deeply furrowed, whitish. Woodw. 
Flowei's sometimes double. 
Common Feverfew, (q. d. Febrifuge. Welsh: Tarfgryd ; Wermod 
wen. P. Parthenium. Relh. Sm. Willd. Hook. Grev. Matricaria Par- 
thenium. Linn. Huds. Lightf. With. Woodv. E.) Waste places, 
hedges, and walls. P. June—July.* 
P. ino'dorum. Leaves sessile, winged, many-cleft: stem branched, 
spreading : (crown of the seed entire. E.) 
(Hook. FI. Loud. 101— E. Bot. 676. E.)— El. Dan. 696—Pet. 19. 12— 
Fuchs. 144— J. B. iii. a. 120. 2. 
This obscure plant is readily distinguishable from Anthemis Cotula, which 
it very much resembles, as also A. arvensis, by the want of chaff 
on the receptacle; and from Matricaria Cliamomilla by its flatfish 
calyx; its scales brown and uneven at the edge ; its receptacle hemis¬ 
pherical, not conical; the rays of the blossom expanding, not bent 
down, and its flowers being thrice as large. Linn. Stem much 
branched, smooth, scored, sometimes purplish. Leaves, wings distant, 
twice or thrice divided, the extreme segments thread-shaped, mid-rib 
broad, membranous, and somewhat embracing the stem at the base, 
narrowing upwards. Flowers large, terminal, (upon long, naked, pedun¬ 
cles. E.) Florets of the circumference nearly strap-shaped, eight to 
nine lines long ; of the centre, greenish at the base, yellow above ; seg¬ 
ments spear-shaped, expanding. Receptacle conical. Seeds brown, 
lopped at each end, with four whitish prominent angles. Woodw. 
(Calyx-scales smooth, and, compared with those of a Chrysanthemum, 
rather acute, as wanting the dilatation, or appendage characteristic of 
that genus, and having a narrow membranous border along the whole 
margin. The membranous crown of the seed, however, stamps the 
genus. Sm. E.) Florets of the circumference twenty or more; those in 
* The whole herb has a strong smell and a bitter taste, and yields an essential oil by 
distillation. A horse refused it. St. (Simon Pauli relates wonders of its efficacy in 
hysteria ; and Geoffroy adds, “ all that bitters and carminatives can do may be expected 
from this.” Modern practitioners, in England at least, have considered its virtues scarcely 
equal to those of Chamomile : but, perhaps, these contradictory accounts may, in some 
degree, be reconciled by the consideration of climate affecting the plant, if not the 
patient and the disorder. Several varieties, as the double, fistular, curled-leaved, &c. 
are found in gardens. E.) 
